Sentences with phrase «as paul»

As Paul said, if there was no resurrection, then we are to be pitied above all men.

When a woman does not cover head in church it dishonours her head and as Paul states clearly the head of the woman is man.

As a result, the myths of the mystery religions were irrelevant for such a Jew as Paul, until he encountered the view that the myth had happened in history.

The once vital and integral myths of nations and religious communities are now «broken myths,» as Paul Tillich said.

As Paul Vitz recently commented, we live in a nation of 260 million supreme beings.

Then what happens to us unmarried women, as Paul also says it is better for the unmarried and widows to remain that way?

Certainly it must be said that such experiences as Paul had on the Damascus road are intelligible and have often been reproduced in Christian history, but that as soon as we pass to the later writings, where the empty tomb and its related events are involved, we find ourselves amid dubious evidence and irreconcilable confusion.

As Paul says, «Follow me as I follow Christ.»

To be in Christ is to be a «new creation,» as Paul declares (II Cor.

As Paul says:

As Paul Weiss pointed out:

As Paul put it, he «did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant» (Phil.

As both Paul and Luther recognized, the experience of being cleansed, forgiven, and restored to relationship is so profoundly moving that the good life follows as a natural flowing of gratitude.

As Paul Davies points out, «in Renaissance Europe, the justification for what we today call the scientific approach to inquiry was the belief in a rational God whose created order could be discerned from a careful study of nature» (Paul Davies, The Mind of God).

As Paul proclaims to the Philippians, he brings no rights and privileges to God's mission because he has no righteousness of his own.

For one thing it seems to line up with the way God judges the world as Paul reveals in Romans 1.

And the truth is, it's «an act of violence» as Paul Kivel explains, «to be denied access to a job, housing, educational program, pay raise or promotion that one deserves.»

It is a gift, as Paul says in Ephesians, a grace «given to me for you.»

«For,» as Paul declares in Romans 8:19 — 21, «the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the unveiling of the sons and daughters of God.

Thus, as Paul Wernle put it, «The Christology of Mark conflicts with that of Paul at almost every point.»

Romans 7 speaks to our ongoing struggle with sin, as even the pioneers of evangelism such as Paul admits.

When we remember, as Paul commands us to do here, the way we were without the grace of God in our lives, it reminds us that the way we are now is due to God, and not our own effort or ability.

Only after this work has successfully been completed will the Christ return the kingship to God and become subordinate to God, as Paul states in I Corinthians 35:28.

So, we are equally depraved, none have done good or seen the light, as Paul tells us.

For the Christ, as Paul contends in I Corinthians 12:12, is the commnunity of the one and the many: «For even as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body being many are one body, so also the Christ.»

As Paul concludes in his wonderful chapter on love in the letter to the Corinthians, without love all my actions are worth nothing (even if that includes giving all I have to the poor and surrendering my life...)

Neville since Jesus lives in you you may be the only Jesus people in the street get to know.Its his influence in us that has impact not a theoretic ideal of who Jesus is.Our identity is in Christ therefore we are like him or as paul said we are living epistles like a living bible that people can see who Jesus is.Just be yourself and reach out to others because you want them to know who Christ is like the woman at the well if they only knew him they would drink of the living waters you have tasted and so you know its in that experience that we can share or testify what he has done for us.brentnz

As Paul finally challenged the idolatry of his hearers, so Christians must challenge the idolatry of any attempt to reduce God's power and presence to our will for self - determination.

As Paul says in Corinthians 35:45, The first human Adam became a living being; the last Adam a life - giving spirit.»

In other words, the teaching that the death of Christ was (a) for sin and (b) in accordance with the scriptures was derived by both Mark and Paul from the primitive church; the doctrine of the Atonement is not Paul's unique and distinctive contribution to Christian thought, for it is really pre-Pauline; further, it is not at all the central, cardinal doctrine in «Paulinism,» but a subsidiary one; (Indeed, it is a component one — it forms part of the doctrine of the new creation in Christ) finally, the conception of the way in which Christ's death becomes effective, as Paul conceived it, is peculiar to Paul and finds no trace in Mark or indeed elsewhere in the New Testament (Save in passages demonstrable dependent on Paul)-- Paul thinks of it as a conquest of the demonic powers in the very hour of their greatest aggression and apparent triumph.

At the root of the disagreement about perfection, I think, is the fact that we sometimes forget that according to Christianity the purpose of moral imperatives is not to make people righteous, but to show them their sin (as Paul taught in Galatians).

No longer am I stuck trying to make my body do things that my mind isn't dedicated to — I stop «doing what I don't want to do» as Paul puts it.

As Paul the Apostle said, Christ is above all, through all, and in all.

«If;» as Paul says, «one died on behalf of all and consequently all died,» that death must be claimed as the end of my involvement in the old moral order.

But this goes no further than the doctrine as Paul received it from the primitive church.

Today, the once - controversial circumcision debate can be addressed in passing, as Paul could speak in passing of the sinfulness of homosexual acts.

Should there not be an interpreter present, as Paul suggests?

The freedom of the new life in Christ, as Paul describes it, is freedom from the burden of legalistic moralisms; but it is not freedom from the ethical guidelines of the Jewish - Christian tradition.

Specifically, Wolterstorff declines to mention the pitched debate over the import of the multiple allusions Paul makes in Romans 1 to Genesis 1 - 3, allusions that suggest that «nature,» as Paul understands it, isn't simply «what is common in Paul's day» but rather what is given in God's creation itself.

Any definition of worship less rich than this comes under the judgment of such an admonition as Paul's in the twelfth chapter of Romans.

This poignant cry is followed at once by the triumphant shout,» I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord»; just as Paul's reference to man's bondage to sin and death in I Corinthians 15:56, quoted a moment ago, is immediately followed by «Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.»

What did the change involve, as far as Paul's relationship to Judaism was concerned?

There is more than sufficient reason to affirm that Mark, Matthew and Luke, as well as Paul, took for granted the pre-existence of Jesus.

God justifies the ungodly, as Paul and the reformers after him stressed.

As far as Paul himself was concerned, the crucial moment of his life was his conversion, and he speaks of the event three times.

As early as Paul the doctrine of Jesus» pre-existence was prevalent, and there is some evidence in his letters that he identified the Pre-existent Christ with the hypostatized Logos or Wisdom of God, who according to certain Hellenistic Jewish teachers, functioned as God's agent and mediator in creating and sustaining the world.

In my personal experience I have not witnessed such a conversion where a strong educated man as Paul was completely turned when he wanted nothing to do with it.

As Paul describes it here, they are chosen to be holy and blameless!

To the naysayers such as Paul Swilley and Robin Somers, I would say, take a little time to be patient, keep calm, close your eyes, place your hand on your heart and ask your conscience, «was I speaking out of real love or is it the deeply ingrained yet subtle hatred that is within me that had prompted me to have said what I said?»

Apparently most of the early Christians continued to work at their normal occupations, as Paul with Aquila and Priscilla, his fellow tentmakers, did for a time at Corinth (Acts 18:3).